tonymckenziecom | 2 years ago
So here is the Marshall Amps factory tour I promised for 2023. A close-up tour of the factory showing most of the things you might want to see with some great information.
Contents
0:00 Start
0:28 Intro and Preamble
3:42 Factory showroom
4:20 Marshall's first amp
4:36 Oversized 4x12 cab
4:49 Tour start
5:16 PCB build area
7:46 Hand wired PCB section
10:57 Hendrix Amplifier
11:47 Amp covering department
12:48 Jaguar combo amp
19:29 Wood Mill department
26:09 Jim Marshall's machine
28:38 Finishing department
31:19 What you don't know
39:14 Celestion speakers
40:36 Marshall pedal assembly
40:55 'Slash' amp collection
41:43 Discontinued amps
42:14 Engineering department
46:52 Natal drum kits
48:28 Warehouse
48:38 Marshall mini car
50:33 Marshall studio
57:04 Live stage area
57:55 The stage
59:08 Important notes
Links to previous videos of Marshall Factory Amps:
With Phil Wells...
My August 2011 tour part one: https://youtu.be/WeerxAO3oRU
and part two: https://youtu.be/rhe7qXP08qw
Terry Marshall Interview April 2023: https://youtu.be/khqCZWVE7Jg
Marshall Amp Reviews by me:
Marshall YJM100 Amp Review Part One: https://youtu.be/--CSLX066J0
Marshall YJM100 Amp Review Part Two: https://youtu.be/x3Yu9ilGTvw
Marshall AFD100 Part One: https://youtu.be/kYkPdbG605Y
AFD100 Part Two: https://youtu.be/zpizMuXGS70
Marshall JVM410HJS Satriani Head review: https://youtu.be/va-dOzTtq3k
Marshall Custom Studio 2525H Amp Review: https://youtu.be/8wM3gqZbyN4
Marshall Studio JCM800 SC20 Stealth Amp Review: https://youtu.be/spmM0DQgDIg
Marshall Studio SV20 Snakeskin Amp Review: https://youtu.be/AXLpIjGPGAs
Marshall RARE JMP2100 Amp Repair & Review: https://youtu.be/S_F7ybniIqg
Marshall Class 5 Amp Review: https://youtu.be/GhhjWvkx-3U
Marshall 2555X Reissue Amp Review: https://youtu.be/4BO3QhLxDMk
Marshall 1959HW Hand Wired Amp Review: https://youtu.be/d-SFtu1mjV0
And there are many more on my channel at youtube.com/tonymckenziecom
Marshall Group and the Marshall Amps factory in 2023 reminded me instantly of my visit 11 years earlier in 2011, and of course I drew comparisons to then and now. Marshall are always really great hosts and that comes right down from the top of the company... they love to see you. At that time they employed 'Phil Wells' a really great guy that worked there for at least 40 years and he was a gold mine of info. He retired in end of 2019 sadly.
Today, in this factory tour, Marshall used many different presenters to represent their own expertise and that generally worked very well - you are seeing the (often) team leaders of the particular section and discussing first hand with them about their clear knowledge and expertise. It was great to hear the accumulation of all that skill from those years at Marshall Amps.
Of course in more recent times since 2020 (a watershed for many companies) I'm sure that for any maker things are harder than they used to be, and certainly in my own opinion the simulators of amps will have a slow burning effect on sales. But thankfully for the time being many of those products from others are not as simple as a Marshall amp to use - just turn it on, wait 30 seconds and you as a musician will be playing really great tones - not some half assed excuse that needs three months to get to grips with the software, just a simple amplifier, yet the most powerful and true tone for guitarists that you could ever have. Built to rock!
In the first short section of this Marshall factory tour the audio was compromised a little, but from then on I generally solved all that so its all good video and good audio from there on. When you get to the Marshall studio, sadly they would not use the provided microphone, so the audio is not loud.
The final section is the Marshall live room and stage area which I'm sure many have seen before - for me it reminds me of Gary Moore playing on the stage (its on YT somewhere) - very memorable.
Finally Terry Marshall (link above) discussed a number of topics that were very enlightening and certainly better than what you read about in the sometimes wrong music press. Watch it and learn!
Thanks to Fair Deal Music : 79-83 Holloway Head, Birmingham, B1 1QP - Tel: 0121 643 1685
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